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...heavyweight J.V. race, Dartmouth took second place two-and-one-half-lengths behind the Crimson by pulling away from Princeton in the last quarter of a mile. Time for the J.V. contest was a much slower 9:30.6, since stiff head winds in the middle of the race forced the Crimson stroke down...
...fancier of phobias, batho-to claustro-to thanato-, life aboard a submarine seems designed to drive a man out of his mind. Sealed inside a steel prison, the submariner is bored stiff for weeks at a time. His air comes out of a machine; his sun is a light bulb. And in a few swift seconds of combat he may meet a fate that the rest of the world knows only as a statistic...
...breeding ranch in Queretaro, Mexico this week, cowhands watched critically as a young American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...
Dave Bohn's stiff neck deprived the Crimson of a few goals they might otherwise have received. Bohn, high scorer on the varsity, was unable to make backhand shots or turn his head quickly to see the ball...
...exceptionally high morale among all its members has been a major cause of the Club's rapid advance. Each man is attracted by the unfamiliarity of the sport, and gives all he has in learning it. With forty men on the squad, the competition is stiff, and the second team scrum has developed into almost as strong a unit as the first...